Thursday, 24 December 2015

Terror Attacks are Great for US Arms Makers - ISIL Just Sent the Bomb Business BOOMING

If you
are in the business of making tools of mass murder, business is, quite
literally, BOOMING.

“WAR is a racket. It always has
been.It is possibly the oldest, easily the most
profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope.
It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses
in lives.”

-Two-time Medal of Honor
recipient, Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

The United
States is dropping bombs faster than the military industrial complex can
manufacture them.
The spike in demand for weapons of war since the attacks in Paris have sent
stock prices and arms sales through the roof.

According to
US officials, arms manufacturers have added shifts and hired workers, but they
warn that this may not be enough to keep up with the world’s demand for weapons
of mass destruction.

As the US
sends tens of thousands of warheads to Saudi Arabia so they can bomb schools
and hospitals in Yemen, they are placing a strain on domestic production. Since
the terror attacks in Paris, American forces have increased their efforts and
have begun dropping 453 bombs a day in Iraq and Syria.

Thanks to
the invasive and murderous US foreign policy, there is no shortage of ‘Islamic
Extremism’ to attack in the Middle East. Not only is Saudi Arabia receiving US
arms, but so are many of the other Gulf states as well as Syrian ‘rebels.’

“It’s a huge
growth area for us,” said one executive with a U.S. weapons maker, who was not
authorized to speak publicly.

“Everyone in
the region is talking about building up supplies for five to ten years. This is
going to be a long fight,” said the representative as if mass murder on a
global scale is somehow something to be celebrated.

According to
a recent
report from Reuters, American cities are rejoicing over the new windfall,
job creation and the economic benefits associated with propping up the military
industrial complex.

The impact
is palpable in Troy, Alabama, where Lockheed Martin Corp builds its 100-pound
Hellfire air-to-ground missiles at a 3,863-acre highly secured facility
surrounded by woods and horse pastures. Realtors are adding staff in
anticipation of new hiring at the plant, and the large grocery chain Publix is
opening a store soon.

“What’s good
for Lockheed is good for Troy,” said Kathleen Sauer, president of the Pike
County Chamber of Commerce, adding that the expansion was helping a local
economy where unemployment rates are already among the lowest in the state.

“Look at our
downtown,” she said. “Almost all the stores are open and we have more coming
in.”

Sadly, the
clueless politicians who are boasting this economic growth are missing the
point entirely. There is no ‘growth’ happening at all as every single dime
given to the weapons manufacturers must first be stolen from the US taxpayer,
either directly or through increasing the debt to the federal reserve and
passing the bill on to future generations.

Not too mention
the fact that millions of innocent people are being blown to a fine red mist
from these things.

"The World
War, rather our brief participation in it, has cost the United States some
$52,000,000,000. Figure it out. That means $400 to every American man, woman,
and child. And we haven’t paid the debt yet. We are paying it, our children
will pay it, and our children’s children probably still will be paying the cost
of that war."

$52 billion
in 1930 was a lot of money, and all of it stolen from American citizens and
used by the oligarchs as investment money to turn them into billionaires.
Butler was entirely correct as well. Our children’s children and their children
are still being buried under a mountain of debt for war.

Sadly, this
growth of the military industrial complex shows no signs of slowing. In fact,
this year alone, foreign military sales approvals only, surged 36 percent to
$46.6 billion in the year through September 2015 from around $34 billion a year
earlier.

According to
Reuters,

This year
alone, the U.S. government has approved the sale of Hellfires to South Korea,
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, France, Italy and Britain. In June, the U.S.
Army said it had asked Lockheed to boost production of the Hellfire from 500
per month to 650 by November.

“There are
essentially waiting lists for Hellfire. They can’t make them fast enough,” said one State
Department official, who asked not to be identified.

As the
threat of World War III looms across the planet, the American taxpayers are
being fleeced to build the weapons with which this world war will be carried
out. It is sheer lunacy.

War is a criminal act against humanity. The
fundamental question is who may benefit from the present potential military
conflict in the Ukraine?

The citizens
of the Ukraine, Europe, Russia, or the USA would not benefit. Some people in the
Ukraine may benefit. The European Union is facing such severe economic
and social problems that its search for other burdens would be rather
surprising. Russia needs economic and political stability to again be
respected as a world power. The USA is ending two rather long wars – in
Iraq and Afghanistan. Would our country be eager to get involved in
another military conflict that again might not be very successful?

The USA is
the World’s foremost military power. Its military budget represents about
50 percent of global military expenditures. The US military has spent
trillions of dollars since the end of the Second World War. Despite these
huge expenditures, it cannot claim any major victories. The Korean War
ended in a tie. The USA was defeated in Vietnam. It has been
searching for some ending of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without being
able to claim true victories.

The USA
really did not have to get involved in those wars that solved nothing. US
citizens did not benefit from those wars.

A hidden
Agenda? There had to be some reasons for conducting those wars that killed many
people, destroyed properties, wasted resources and taxpayers’ money. One
should recall the words of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 17, 1961):

“Until the
latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry.
American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as
well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national
defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of
vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are
directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military
security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This
conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is
new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even
spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the
Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet
we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and
livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the
councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The
potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

The fact
that military activities
may become a profitable enterprise leads to the realization that peace is the
main enemy of the military-industrial complex. A
simple metaphor can illustrate this problem. Grape growers, the wine
industry and wine marketers would be completely out of business if people
stopped drinking wine. In a similar way, the military-industrial complex
would be put out of business by lasting peaceful conditions because the
development, production, marketing and use of military equipment would be not
needed.

To
stay in business, this complex needed the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and
Afghanistan, the “cold war” with the Soviet Union, war on terrorism and various
other wars.
And it needs to be involved in new conflicts, such as in Ukraine at this time.

Recent
political activities in the Ukraine can be viewed as an effort to start a new
“cold war”, this time with Russia. It is not about reducing corruption in
the Ukraine (there is plenty of corruption in western countries as well).
It is not about improving democracy in the Ukraine (the same need exists in
western countries as well). It is not about improving economic conditions
in the Ukraine (the same need exists in western countries as well).

The main
objective of Western activities in the Ukraine is to provoke Russia and to
transform a sensitive peaceful coexistence into a new “cold war”.
Everyone could have expected the Russian reaction to the effort of placing NATO
forces on its borders. This would be the equivalent of placing Soviet
missiles in Cuba. Kennedy’s government had to react in October 1962.
Putin’s government has reacted now.

Peace is a
hope of a great majority of people. It could be enhanced if government
expenditures would support business companies producing renewable energy, clean
water and other life supporting products, rather than products bringing
death.

Vashek
Cervinka
lives in Davis, California. He is an author of the book Questions We Have
Forgotten to Ask and many essays published in the local newspaper. He can
be reached at vac@dcn.org.

War Sucks,
What is it Good For? Creating peace, spreading democracy, boosting the economy?Here’s the
answer: nothing.Our natural
inclination is to think about war in the abstract. And while there may be good
reasons to go to war, those reasons are few and far between. The moral case for
war requires much more than a vague worry.

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6 comments:

How can you blame America, America is an occupied nation, controlled by Zionist- Israeli interests, either Jewish or Christian Zionism controls American foreign policy and has for quite sometime... Don't blame America or Americans, blame the ADL, AIPAC who have corrupted the entire system through their Rothschild purse strings... The entire money system a Rothschild operation is responsible for America because it owns it. That's not to say we didn't allow it to happen because we are the ones who use their money and when any people use any privately owned money supply they give away their natural born freedoms to the owners and or controllers. America is occupied by Israeli interests. That's the key to understanding the entire play upon the worlds stage. Don't blame America, blame Israeli policy and their control of American Government.

It is popular to speak of celebrities who sell their soul for fame and money.But what of those who work in factories producing weapons? What of those who volunteer to murder civilians via joining the military? What of those who support war, directly or indirectly and vote for even more tax money to feed the beast? And yes I agree with Anonymous above, the creation of the Federal Reserve and the fact that Zionists now own the 6 mass media corporations has much to do with the perpetuation of this madness. Also observe the mentality of the Christian Zionists, big supporters of war, clearly more Zionist than Christian, and clearly more in line with the Yahweh pantheon war god, than the peace god Jesus. I don't know what it will take for humans to wake up.

If our US American culture had any mainstream appreciation for established world religions,beyond the war=peace, Yahweh-Jesus concepts, perhaps more would understand the Buddhist tenet for right livelihood.How do you get the unawakened to wake up? It is a pain that is as familiar as a long ago injured body part. The damaged tissue occasionally flares and reminds you of being in a body, engaged in a dimension consisting of systems within systems, all on various levels of awareness. It sometimes appears as if humans are determined to destroy themselves, rather than drop or at least minimize ego, and work together to prevent war. Beautiful articles Illuminati,all year through. Although the issues appear dire, awareness is a key factor for any hope to grow beyond unecessary pain. Thanks for all you have done to help this great work.

All this scapegoating of Zionists (and by far the majority of Zionists are US followers of christinanity who want Jews to return to Isn'treal and to end the world so their nonexistent Big Brother figure can come and save them from themselves) ignores the simple fact that the West has profited from brutal colonialism for centuries, often using local ethnic proxies as their pawns. And as Free Your Mind points out, individual citizens feed and profit from megadeath personally and privately by their willing participation in a brutal regime masquerading as 'the land of the free'.

You agreed Illuminator that most every government throughout the world supports NAZI ideologies.... For those who don't know, the acronym NAZI means (Na)tional Socialism (now International) supported by (ZI) = (Zi)onist objectives. Who are the heads of the Zionist movement? The Rothschild's of course, for they are the owners of the mythical state of Isn'treal, illuminator.... They are supporters of myths that they sell around the world to perpetuate their conflict based world....

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